Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-11
ITALMAGE ON ELECTIONS.
Weekly Lecture Of the Brooklyn Divine
On Current Topics OF the Day.
Worldly Affairs Dealt With.
The Approaching Elections Throughout
the Country the Theme OF an Flo
quent Address Last week.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

W lbu oAAoSSt ~ Icy SRSAAN 49, YAM OA~SA
Ign Tabernacle tonight, as usual, on The
secular events of the week from re-
ligious standpoint. The subject of his
address Was: "The Approaching Elec-
TONS" He said:
From the newspapers of the past few
in nearly all the states, and as this
sutumn will have much TO do with the
next autumn presidential election, there
are some things important TO say on the
right Snd wrong modes of conducting &
political campaign. OF the two styles We
may make our choice.
One wey is to gather up the scum and
slush and turpituQe OF the community
into great reservoir and then let them
run down through the appointed sque-
ducts On the candidates presented. Take
the character of the man whom you
don't expect to vote for End find out
who his ancestors were, and if any
of them were hanged or imprisoned, Or
boodlers of public funds. Make the son
or grandson now up for Cflce suffer for
it. Many Of those who are hot against
the theological theory that we suffer for
Adams transgression, are glad In pollt-
ical life to make the descendant nomin-
sted for office take the consequences fCr
ancestral delinquencies. Never forgive
good Eleazer Of Bible times because
wicked Jehosaphet was one of his fore
fathers. candidate has no business to
have had bad grandfather. Bring up
the graveyard and array those under the
ground against those still shove ground.
Then marshal ell the candidates early
indiScretions and follles, and with them,
from behind the oarricade of the ballot
box, fusiIade and bombshell your antag-
onist.
Then come ON to the later periods CT
the candidates. life. Take his utterarces
and put them into twisting machine,
and turn them this way aud that, and in
vert them, disj0int them, Gecspitate them,
quarter them, and cruelty them. Paint
him black from head to foot. Be sure Of
beginning with the bleckiDg brush st his
hezd, and show that he has no brains, no
mental qualification, no acumen, 10
sound Judgment. Then put the blacking
brush on his mouth, and show that ne
can't make g speech, or, if he does speak,
ne ssys the wrong thing. Then come
down to his shoulders, and paint them
black, putting upon them the responsible!
ity for
THE WRONG DEEDS OF OTHERS.
Then paint his heart black, showing that
he is cruel, and mean, and arrogant, and
oppressive TO the poor. Then paint his
pocket black, and show that he never
gives anything to help others, and that
much of what he has in that pocket he
got dishonesty. Then come on down
nj hiS hucaG hlSPk ahnUIUo thS$
he never prsys, or is bigot and only
kneels on his own sectsrisn footstool.
Then come On down and paint his foot
black, showing that ne has often walked
in forbidden places, and that he has often
slipped in morals. Then paint his house
blSck, es in the last Presidential election,
when both candidates were ny infamous
doggerel, and caricature, and campaign
song, assailed for their home life.
Then having worn out the blacking
brush on the opposing candidate, get G
load of lime, dump it at the feet of your
favorite candidate, Stake it, and Stir II,
and then take your whitewash brush in
hand. WhiteWash him from head TO foot.
Cover up ali his defects. Make him wise,
patriotic, efficient. Lie as mucn
in favor of the man whom you like as you
did against the man whom you dislike.
Talking to temperance people, make him
out the eternal friend Of sobriety,
and talking to. the beerlov-
ing population, make him vehement
against sumptuary enactment. Say to
those who are in favor of unrestrained
emigration that he is fond CT foreigners,
and to those who are opposed to emigra-
ton that he can't bear IN freshman. Ssy
to Kentucky he is free trader, and to
he is for high tariff. Rep
resent him when you are near the line be-
tween north and south as believing that
the war is over, and there ought TO be no
more sectional strife; but when you are
up further toward the north star, repre-
sent him as in psroXysm Of indignation
because Jefferson Davis's hand was the
other day kissed by his soldiers in GeoI-
gie. The fact is one candidate is by turns
DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde.
Have your candidate on pivot, so that
YOU can turn him round this way and that,
like Mrs. Jarley's wax figures. Now,
fellow citizens, take my candidate or
suffer the consequences. With him pros
perity, good government, less taxes, snd
reform in all departments. Reject him,
and misrLle, depleted treasury, poor
wages,
BANKRUPTCY AND RUIN.
Now, having given three times three
for the solid ticket, we adjourn for the
polls. Have near the polls two or three
saloous with free drinks. II it be against
the law to have the front door open on
election day, have the back door unlocked.
or, if that also be watched, have some
private house where we can
all 20 for refreshments. You
can't expect man to stand from morn
ing to night in cold November day with
out some kind Of physical reinforcement,
Go out and meet the people ss they come
of tickets. Ii they are prepared fer
their folly. Beseech them by all they
city or the country into disasters from
which they will never recover. II YOU are
at the head OF q factory
or large commercial establish
ment, Tell your employers you do
not want to interfere with their political
sentiments; that you have never used
your influence IS an employer, and never
will use it, to decide What your employees
should do, but get spy among your men
to report to You how his comrades vote,
and sitter awhile, during the course Of the
year, let those who voted different
ticket from that which you prefer, drop
out OF their places, not knowing what
hurt them.
But election day Is past. now declare
the polls closed. Keep 3 few OF the ballot
boxes late in reporting, until you see
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